While that's about £50 more than launch prices over here, it's fairly understandable, after all, someone probably put their job on the line pinching them from Nintendo's factories.

The console is set to sell out pretty quickly in Japan though. Apparently, the company manufactured just 400,000 of the devices for launch, and in a country of 120 million people, most of which are supposedly mad for Nintendo products, there's going to be a lot of fans heading home empty handed.